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Australian Early Development Census Community Profile 2018 Australian Early Development Census Community Profile 2018 Wyndham, VIC © 2019 Commonwealth of Australia Since 2002, the Australian Government has worked in partnership with eminent child health research institutes, the Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and the Telethon Kids Institute, Perth to deliver the Australian Early Development Census program to communities. The Australian Government continues to work with its partners, and with state and territory governments to implement the AEDC nationwide. Contents About the Australian Early Development Census .............................. 2 Note on presentation conventions: the hyphen (-) is used throughout the tables in this Community Profile where Australian Early Development Census How to use this AEDC data. ............................................................ 4 data was not collected or not reported for any given year. All percentages presented in this Community Profile have been rounded to one decimal About this community ..................................................................... 5 place. Figures may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Information about children in this community ................................... 6 Note on links: the symbol is used in this document to highlight links to the Australian Early Development Census website: www.aedc.gov.au. AEDC domain results ......................................................................... 9 These links will connect you with further information and resources. AEDC results for local communities ...............................................20 20 Note on children with special needs status: domain indicator information about children with special needs is not included in the Australian Early Appendix 1: Critical difference estimates Development Census results because of the already identified substantial 1614 developmental needs of this group. - Appendix 2: Additional resources Note on accessibility: an accessible text version of the Australian Early ISSN: 2206 Development Census Community Profile is available for download from 1 the data explorer on the Australian Early Development Census website. If - 002 you use assistive technology and need further assistance, please email - [email protected]. Please tell us what format you need. It will also 1903 - help if you let us know what assistive technology you use. AEDC Note on per cent calculation: unless otherwise specified the per cent is based on the valid n value. AEDC publication rules have been applied and for more information visit the AEDC website ( https://www.aedc.gov.au/data-users/data-user- responsibilities/publishing-requirements ). Page 1 Figure 1 – AEDC domain descriptions. About the Australian Early Development Census Physical health and wellbeing In 2009, Australia became the first country in the world to collect national data on the developmental health and wellbeing of all children starting school. The success Children’s physical readiness for the school day, physical of the 2009 data collection laid the foundation for the Australian Government’s independence and gross and fine motor skills. commitment to ongoing Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) data collections every three years, with the most recent in 2018. Social competence The AEDC measures the development of children in Australia in their first year of full-time school. AEDC data is collected using an adapted version of the Early Children’s overall social competence, responsibility and Development Instrument, which was developed in Canada. respect, approach to learning and readiness to explore new things. The Australian version of the Early Development Instrument consists of approximately 100 questions across five key domains, which are closely linked to Emotional maturity child health, education and social outcomes. Figure 1 provides a description of each of the AEDC domains. Children’s pro-social and helping behaviours and absence of anxious and fearful behaviour, aggressive behaviour and hyperactivity and inattention. Language and cognitive skills (school-based) Children’s basic literacy, advanced literacy, basic numeracy, and interest in literacy, numeracy and memory. Communication skills and general knowledge Children’s communication skills and general knowledge based on broad developmental competencies and skills measured in the school context. Page 2 AEDC Community Profile 2018 Wyndham For each of the five AEDC domains, children receive a score between zero and ten, where zero is most developmentally vulnerable. In 2009, when the AEDC was first completed nationally, a series of cut-off scores was established for each of the five domains: • Children falling below the 10th percentile were categorised as ‘developmentally vulnerable’ • Children falling between the 10th and 25th percentile were categorised as ‘developmentally at risk’ • All other children were categorised as ‘developmentally on track’. The cut-off scores set in 2009 provide a reference point against which later AEDC results can be compared. These have remained the same for all data collections. For example, nationally in the 2018 AEDC, only 6.6 per cent of children were considered developmentally vulnerable on the language and cognitive skills (school-based) domain, using the cut-off scores established in 2009. For further information about the domains and domain characteristics (developmentally on track, at risk and vulnerable) please refer to the fact sheet About the AEDC domains ( www.aedc.gov.au/abtdom ). Links to additional AEDC resources can be found at Appendix 2. AEDC Community Profile 2018 Wyndham P a g e 3 How to use this AEDC data The AEDC provides important information for communities, governments and When exploring this community’s AEDC results you may wish to consider how schools to support their planning and service provision. The early environments well connected the network of community stakeholders are and who provides and experiences children are exposed to shape their development. The AEDC services to children and families. Ask: is considered to be a measure of how well children and families are supported • are families well informed about what is available in the community? from conception through to school age. • does the community have well established referral pathways for Research shows that investing time, effort and resources in children’s early years, connecting families to services and supports? when their brains are developing rapidly, benefits children and the whole community. Early developmental gains support children through their school • does the community have well-connected services that work years and beyond. collaboratively to deliver programs across systems and sectors? The AEDC helps communities understand how children are developing before Also consider how stakeholders can connect strategically with the community they start their first year of full-time school, what is being done well and what can and families to: be improved. Communities can use the AEDC to help identify services, resources • be informed about what is happening for children in the community and support to meet the needs of their community. • discuss what could be done to better support children’s development in the The AEDC data is a powerful tool for initiating conversations and partnerships early years across education, health and community services. By providing a common • collaborate in the development and implementation of a community plan ground from which key stakeholders can work together, the AEDC can enable that strategically provides a vision and direction for early years’ service communities to form partnerships to plan and implement activities, programs provision within the community. and services to help shape the future and wellbeing of children in Australia. Connecting with key stakeholders, particularly early childhood education and care Refer to the AEDC User Guides ( www.aedc.gov.au/resources/user-guides ) for services, can give communities the opportunity to reach families in ways that are ideas and strategies on how to respond to AEDC data and connecting with this not resource intensive. community. When reviewing the information in this profile consider: • what are the strengths and vulnerabilities of children in the community? • how does this community compare to other similar communities, the state or territory or the Australian average? • what factors may be contributing to the percentage and number of children who are developmentally vulnerable in the community? • what other demographic and community data would be useful to add context to the AEDC data? Page 4 AEDC Community Profile 2018 Wyndham About this community AEDC communities are a geographic area, usually equivalent to a Local AEDC local communities Government Area, made up of AEDC local communities. Local communities are a small area locality, usually representing a suburb or The AEDC local communities that make up the Wyndham community are: town. Laverton, Williams Landing, Hoppers Crossing, Truganina, Werribee, Tarneit, Wyndham Vale, Point Cook, Werribee South/Cocoroc. This AEDC Community Profile presents AEDC results for children living in this community regardless of where they attend school. Across the 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 AEDC data collections some local communities may not have always been included in a Community Profile due to Location there being insufficient AEDC data available for reporting purposes in any particular year. Wyndham is in the Melbourne
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